Thanks, that worked, I used dpkg-reconfigure to tell the server not to use the framebuffer.
Chris On Sunday 18 January 2004 20:22, Scott C. Linnenbringer wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2004, at 19:20 +0100, Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm using an ATI Rage 129 Pro Graphics card with no problems with the > > 2.4.23 kernel and and xserver-xfree8 4.2.1-15. I tried the same sith > > the 2.6.0 kernel and I get an error with the fbdevhw sub module of ati > > which is "unable to find a valid framebuffer device". The complete > > log-file and lsmod can be seen below, I've also included XF86config. > > You probably didn't enable the framebuffer support you need in the > kernel you built. > > But I have never used the framebuffer device and it's very > easy to configure the X server not to use it. Run > > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 > > as root and when given the framebuffer prompt, tell it to not use it. > > Otherwise I suppose you could just go into the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > configuration and change it manually by setting > > Option "UseFBDev" "true" > > to > > Option "UseFBDev" "false" -- Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler Bodenstedtstr. 13 30173 Hannover -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
